15th anniversary of Pearl Jam's 10

[wireguy]

For all the Pearl Jam fans on the board, 15 years ago today, "Ten" was released..

 

[BYH]

Holy ****, that makes me depressed. Fifteen years?! Geez.

Back at this time in 1991, who could have imagined hair metal would be dead by the new year? (Hint: Not me!)

 

[21]

Not completely sure, but I think it's 15 years since Michael Bolton went platinum with 'Time Love and Tenderness'....

Someone check and let me know.

 

[BYH]

Not completely sure, but I think it's 15 years since Michael Bolton went platinum with 'Time Love and Tenderness'....

Someone check and let me know.

Probably just a wee bit over 15 years. That came out and stormed the charts in the spring of '91. And being from Connecticut, I didn't know any better so I bought it. I will now light myself on fire for admitting this.

That said, "Steel Bars" was a good song. Anyone remember which rock legend co-wrote it?

 

[Bubbler]

Holy ****, that makes me depressed. Fifteen years?! Geez.

Back at this time in 1991, who could have imagined hair metal would be dead by the new year? (Hint: Not me!)

Well, metal wasn't really totally over by '92, though it was on death's door. It really took until late '92 for Nirvana and Pearl Jam to really take over the rock consciousness.

Most of the songs off Ten didn't get airplay until the summer of '92. I remember telling friends how good Pearl Jam sounded in '91, and they thought I was on another of my Stonesy band crusades, a la, Black Crowes.

And let's not forget, we couldn't have known it in '91, but in '92 were all about to bathe in the refreshing metal waters that were Jackyl.

Greatest ... band ... featuring ... a ... chainsaw ... solo ... ever.

 

[21]

How about the Rod Stewart song about a train? I am SURE about this...

Also, l am calling Michael Bolton, I think that song was still very hot in August of that year.

 

[Ledbetter]

For all the Pearl Jam fans on the board, 15 years ago today, "Ten" was released..

That does make me feel kinda old.

Still my favorite PJ album.

 

[Chi City 81]

Downtown Train? I think that was '89 or so.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Not completely sure, but I think it's 15 years since Michael Bolton went platinum with 'Time Love and Tenderness'....

Someone check and let me know.

Eww ... poisoning a potentially good music thread with Michael Bolton. :D

This will not end well ...

And 21, I think the Rod Stewart tune was "Downtown Train."

 

[BYH]

Bolton did indeed have several singles off "Time, Love And Tenderness" chart in '91 and even early '92. I'm almost sure his monstrosity of a cover, "When A Man Loves A Woman," hit no. 1 in early '92.

I'm sure it went at least double platinum in 1991.

I'm also sure 21 is writing this as a complete joke, and I look like a complete fool for taking it seriously.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Bolton did indeed have several singles off "Time, Love And Tenderness" chart in '91 and even early '92. I'm almost sure his monstrosity of a cover, "When A Man Loves A Woman," hit no. 1 in early '92.

I'm sure it went at least double platinum in 1991.

I'm also sure 21 is writing this as a complete joke, and I look like a complete fool for taking it seriously.

My guess, too. Regardless, a PJ thread devolving to Bolton? :-X

 

[Bubbler]

21,

A quick check of the August Hot 100 reveals that Michael Bolton's Time, Love And Tenderness was not in the No. 1 spot in August 1991. Though a quick check Michael Bolton's wikipedia site ...

(Whoa. Did I just type that? I visited Bolton's wikipedia site? I don't care if my mission was to inform, I deserve to have my scrotum lopped off for that action.)

... indicates that the album was indeed a '91 release.

However ...

The equally insipied and puke-worthy Everything I Do (I Do It For You) was well into its month-plus run atop the Hot 100 countdown.

In related news, Bryan Adams donated his **** to science in early 1991.

 

[BYH]

The equally insipied and puke-worthy Everything I Do (I Do It For You) was well into its month-plus run atop the Hot 100 countdown.

In related news, Bryan Adams donated his **** to science in early 1991.

AHAHAHA I was going to point out we're about two weeks away from the 15th anniversary of the release of "Waking Up The Neighbours."

I bought that tape (!!) the first day it came out. And it rocked, horrible one-dimensional lyrics and all. Sue me.

Didn't Metallica's Black Album come out about 15 years ago this week?

 

[Sam Mills 51]

The equally insipied and puke-worthy Everything I Do (I Do It For You) was well into its month-plus run atop the Hot 100 countdown.

In related news, Bryan Adams donated his **** to science in early 1991.

AHAHAHA I was going to point out we're about two weeks away from the 15th anniversary of the release of "Waking Up The Neighbours."

I bought that tape (!!) the first day it came out. And it rocked, horrible one-dimensional lyrics and all. Sue me.

Good thing Canada has already apologized for Bryan Adams. ;D [/ducking inevitable tomatoes from our Canadian friends on the board]

 

[DisembodiedOwlHead]

Back on point, all 11 songs on that disc kick ass. I was just listening to a live bootleg today and "Blood" came on ... maybe my least favorite song on that record or certainly one of the ones I forget about ... and hearing it live 15 years later, it kicked ****ing ass.

 

[Cadet]

Back on point, all 11 songs on that disc kick ass. I was just listening to a live bootleg today and "Blood" came on ... maybe my least favorite song on that record or certainly one of the ones I forget about ... and hearing it live 15 years later, it kicked ****ing ass.

Agreed, that album was solid all the way through.

And yeah, 15 years does make me feel old. I won't bring up the "where was Cadet 15 years ago" because someone will throw a Bryan Adams CD at me.

 

[21]

In related news, Bryan Adams donated his **** to science in early 1991.

I believe he was still trying to donate it in mid-1991, when the Robin Hood movie was released, featuring kevin costner as the first ever Valley Boy with a fake Brit accent.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

In related news, Bryan Adams donated his **** to science in early 1991.

I believe he was still trying to donate it in mid-1991, when the Robin Hood movie was released, featuring kevin costner as the first ever Valley Boy with a fake Brit accent.

Well, it would have allowed the tights a better fit. ;D

Seriously, IIRC, Costner didn't attempt an accent. Whether it was arrogance or because he felt he couldn't pull it off, I couldn't tell you.

 

[Songbird]

15 years already? Man, time flies.

1991, Santa Maria, California. Assistant sports editor of the Santa Maria Times. Life as I know it today was 180 degrees in the other direction. I remember running laps at Hancock College listening to Ten in my Sony walkman. Hey, y'all, remember those?! There was no Internet as we know it today. I firmly believed I'd never ever leave California, and yet now I'll never live there again. George Bush was still president. Magic Johnson was still making triple-doubles. The Red Hot Chili Peppers hadn't gone national yet; they were still "ours," as Californians would like to believe. Years away from Timothy McVeigh, the '93 World Trade Center and 911.

As for Ten, "Jeremy" is one of those videos that kicked my ass, memerized the hell out of me, and it still ranks in the pantheon of emotional storytelling videos.

The memory Ten most elicits is that Hancock College track and me running circles with a walkman. And if it was 1991, I was covering one of the best female juco hoop players in the country, Tania Brunton, whose New Zealand brogue was so thick that I misquoted her once.

"Coach brings out the beast in me," is what I thought she said and what I wrote in the paper.

Few days later she comes up to me and laughs, "Songbird, what I meant is that Coach brings out the beast in me."

"Yeah, Tania, that's what I wrote."

"No, Songbird, beast."

"Yeah, beast."

"No, b-e-s-t."

"Best?"

"Yes, beast"

And we had a good laugh about it because really, it's the same thing. She was a beast on the court.

Funny how a thread can take you back to a specific moment.

 

[Chef]

Not completely sure, but I think it's 15 years since Michael Bolton went platinum with 'Time Love and Tenderness'....

Someone check and let me know.

Probably just a wee bit over 15 years. That came out and stormed the charts in the spring of '91. And being from Connecticut, I didn't know any better so I bought it. I will now light myself on fire for admitting this.

That said, "Steel Bars" was a good song. Anyone remember which rock legend co-wrote it?

Ashamed to say I know this.......Bob Dylan.